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Mrs. Tabrah's modern tale puts man's conquest of space into a New Guinean perspective that richly human. — It is old Kandege and Jun, his grand son, who still cherish a deep respect for the balance of nature. It is Kandege's people who, like most "primitive societies" understood their relationship to all things-trees, animals, birds, the oceans... more », winds, clouds, earth and stone.« less